For over fifty years (with an inevitable intermission due to COVID-19) Dunfermline Arts Guild – LIVE Music on Sundays in Dunfermline – has provided opportunities for members to enjoy live music in a setting that allowed the audience to hear the music close-up and to interact with the artists. Those taking part are all professional musicians, many of whom are on the threshold of what will be glittering careers – you heard them first in Dunfermline! We are delighted that the 2022–23 season will again be our normal six-concert autumn/winter series, running from September to April, and that once again we’ll be gathering on Sundays at 7:30 enjoying LIVE MUSIC in the comfortable surroundings of Viewfield Baptist Church. Do come and join us … We don’t yet have details for all the concerts, so watch this space!
Founded in 2018 by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Ensemble Renard are an exciting and award-winning young chamber ensemble looking to push the boundaries of wind chamber music. In returning to Scotland for the first time as a group since visiting the Isle of Coll in July 2021, they are sharing a mixed programme of wind quintet ‘classics’ from America, France, Hungary, and England as well as some lesser-known, contemporary works. For their Dunfermline programme, Ensemble Renard have included three works by the Scottish composers Thea Musgrave, Judith Weir, and James MacMillan, not just to celebrate Scottish music, but because these are some of their favourite pieces to play as a group. They enjoy exploring new repertoire and are excited to share this programme with you!
